[U-Boot] [PATCH for-next 0/3] sunxi: Kconfig consolidation and cleanup

Ian Campbell
2014-10-06T08:22:17Z

On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 11:16 +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Hi Ian,
>
> On Sat, 04 Oct 2014 10:32:04 +0100
> Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2014-10-04 at 09:47 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > Probably the board [...] selection could be moved out
> > > without any dependencies, although the board one in particular will be
> > > quite a big patch I think it would be worth it.
> >
> > On the topic of board selection which way round should the SoC vs. board
> > options be arrange? Should we have invisible TARGET_SUN?I options which
> > are selected by each board, or should we have the boards depend on the
> > appropriate TARGET?
> >
> > In the first case a user would need to choose from a pretty long list of
> > boards, in the second case they would need to know which SoC the board
> > has.
> >
> > I'm leaning towards the first.
>
>
> Either would work, but as for Tegra, the second one has been chosen.

Thanks. I think global consistency is a worthwhile goal, so sunxi should
follow the same pattern.

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>
> Architecture select (CONFIG_ARCH)
> -> Tegra Platform (CONFIG_TEGRA)
> -> Tegra SoC select (CONFIG_TEGRA20 / 30 / 114 / 124)
> -> Board select
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>
>
>
> > I don't think either would be an impediment to an eventually single
> > common binary which I'm imagining would appear as a "Generic board"
> > option which depends/selects all appropriate SoCs.
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> Best Regards
> Masahiro Yamada
>
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